Year of Living Deeply
Year of Living Deeply is a Soulful, Meditative Memoir Full of Spiritual Insight
Book Spotlight – Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969
Written by award-winning author Robert Atkinson
Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969 is the 50th anniversary edition of a memoir about awakening, love, and transformation in the context of the marker events of that year. Soon after the Moon Walk, Robert Atkinson leaves a Southampton summer camp, where he was a camp counselor, to re-connect with Pete Seeger on the Hudson River sloop Clearwater. He is invited to join the maiden voyage as a crew member, and one adventure leads to another as his journey of self-discovery converges with the collective transformation going on around him.
Full of soulfulness, grace, and insights, Year of Living Deeply gently carries the reader into a magical realm of timelessness, from sailing on the Clearwater, to attending Woodstock, to living in a cabin in the woods, to meeting Joseph Campbell, who, with Pete Seeger, becomes a guide and mentor, to visiting Arlo Guthrie at his farm in the Berkshires with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, to living as a guest in a Franciscan monastery, all of which help to reveal the patterns connecting all things. He returns to Southampton College, where he had graduated 3 years earlier, to teach a course on folk-rock lyrics as poetry – what all his adventures had been preparing him for – and shares with his students the lessons of a life lived deeply.
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Following Your Call to Adventure: A Brief Guide to Personal Mythmaking, and
Remembering Who We Are: 50 Ways to Tell Your Soul’s Story, both by Robert Atkinson
Testimonials for Year of Living Deeply:
This book is a Rosetta Stone for anyone who wonders what the 60s were about… a talisman for those of us for whom 1969 will remain an incandescent moment for all our life.
~ Larry Dossey, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness
… A real autobiography in that it is the story of a soul… I found it profound, friendly, inspiring, and nostalgic. In short, I loved it and hope others will discover it and take heart.
~ Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul
Robert Atkinson’s insights are familiar to students of the Perennial Philosophy… You will find it full of wisdom and poetry – and an empowerment of your own myth journey.
~ Stephen Larsen, author of A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell, and The Mythic Imagination
About the Author
Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., author, speaker, and developmental psychologist, is a 2017 Nautilus Book Award winner for The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness, an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, a pioneer in the techniques of personal mythmaking and soul-making, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, a project of the Source of Synergy Foundation. He is professor emeritus of cross-cultural human development and religious studies at the University of Southern Maine and director of Story Commons. At USM, he was the first Diversity Scholar in the College of Education and Human Development (2002-2004) and a co-founding faculty of the Russell Scholars Program and the Religious Studies minor. He is the author of nine books. https://www.robertatkinson.net
